A Wonderleaf question
How do storms form?
a real page from the book
Storms form when warm, damp air rises, cools, and turns its water vapor into cloud droplets. Cooler air moves in underneath, winds build, and falling drops become rain. If the rising air keeps getting fed by heat and moisture, the cloud can grow into a storm.
The most interesting part is that forming droplets gives heat back to the air around them. That extra heat can make more air rise, helping a thunderstorm tower upward or feeding a hurricane over warm sea water until its fuel is gone.
Wonder words
- vapor
- condense
- thunder
- humidity
Try it out
After sunset, touch pavement and grass, then talk about which surface kept more heat and how that could move air.
Read the whole picture book
Watercolour scenes, straight answers, about three minutes cover to cover.
Open the picture bookKeep wondering
- Why do mountains change the weather?
- Why is frost sparkly?
- Why is the sky sometimes gray?
- Why do clouds change shape?
- How do meteorologists predict the weather?
- Why does the air smell different after rain?
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